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2Sa_2:30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.
Ver. 30. There lacked of David’s servants, &c.] War is the slaughter house of mankind, and the hell of this present world, saith one: Mars Alpha malorum. It openeth the gates of infelicity that were shut up in times of peace. Wherefore Lactantius {a} thought it not lawful for a just man to be a warrior: whose justice was to be his warfare. Some Anabaptists also hold the same. But God is called a man of war, {Exo_15:3} and said to have war with Amalek; {Exo_17:16} he sendeth the sword; {Eze_14:17} mustereth the men; {Isa_13:4} ordereth the ammunition; {Jer_50:25} batheth the sword in heaven. {Isa_34:5} David fought his battles. {1Sa_25:28} Captain Cornelius, who was of the Italian band, was highly accepted in heaven. John Baptist disliked not the soldiers’ calling, but directeth them how to manage it, &c.
{a} Instit., lib. vi. cap. 20.